Jacques Lacan Quotes

Truth is not so threadbare as speech, because fewer people can make use of it.

There is nothing so powerful as truth — and often nothing so strange.

If you want to be true to life, start lying about it

I read an interview with a Japanese freestyle jazz musician once, and he said something like, "Everything I'm going to tell you is not going to be true." He's not saying, "I'm trying to lie to you." But he's kind of saying that you can never say what something really is.

And if candor strikes to forcefully, step back, draw careful breath, and consider the angle your words must take before you open your mouth, let them leak out. Because once you tilt the truth, it becomes a lie.

You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music. The thing about music is that nobody listens to it unless it's real. I don't think that you can fool anybody for too long in music. And you certainly can't fool everybody.

Truth is so impossible. Something has to be done for it.

There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.

You can't write nothing that ain't real.

It is a true story, the monster said. Many things that are true feel like a cheat.

Knock Knock. Who's there? The Truth. No joke.

The truth is undeniable. You tell somebody the truth, it's undeniable.

He who cannot exaggerate is not qualified to utter truth.

Writing can teach us the dignity of speaking the truth.

In conversation, points arise! If a human being converses much, it is impossible for him to avoid the truth! (Hercule Poirot)

Sometimes the truth don't rhyme

Most of us avoid telling the truth because it's uncomfortable. We're afraid of the consequences-making others feel uncomfortable, hurting their feelings or risking their anger. And yet, when we don't tell the truth, and others don't tell us the truth, we can't deal with matters from a basis in reality.

Since I wasn't able to leave a succession of beautiful lies, I want to leave the smidgen of truth that the falsehood of everything lets us suppose we can tell.

Blues is not a dream, blues is truth.

Truth is in all things, even partly, in error.

There aint no substitute for the truth, either it is or it isnt. You see the truth it needs no proof, either it is or it isnt. And you know the truth by the way you feel.

Maybe it was wrong, or maybe impossible, but I wanted the truth to be one thing. One solid thing.

Always tell the truth, and people will never believe you.

It is very difficult to tell the truth.

Marianne was silent; it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion.